Goldenberg outlines LSA achievements of past year

"We're well on the road to a successful transition. Now, our
efforts should focus on stewardship," LSA Dean Edie N. Goldenberg
said in her annual address to LSA faculty at their Sept. 8 meeting.

Goldenberg said faculty and staff in the College should be proud
of the advancements made in strengthening the faculties and
facilities of the science departments, as well as sustaining
excellence in the social science departments.

"We can be pleased about remarkable positive developments in a
number of humanities and interdisciplinary areas. We have established
the Humanities Awards and have put the Humanities Institute on a
sound financial foundation. And we have developed adequate salary
supplements for distinguished national and international awards to
our faculty."

In addition to strengthening faculty, Goldenberg discussed the
augmentation of staff development. The College, she said, "has
developed an impressive group of key administrators. We have done
this by helping them develop career paths, by building teamwork
across the College, by offering more adequate compensation and by
providing learning opportunities to the staff.

"We have also diversified and strengthened College leadership
through elections to College committees and appointments of chairs,
directors and deans."

She also reflected on the progress of the College over the past
five years in the development of programs and resources. Among the
programs and resources Goldenberg discussed are:

Increasing enrollment in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Program.

Her remarks on the financial status of the College were positive
as well. The LSA endowment has almost doubled in the past five years
(topping $156 million in March 1997), largely as a result of the
College's fund-raising campaign. "This is important," Goldenberg
said, "not because it may be the largest fund-raising campaign ever
achieved in arts and sciences at a public institution, but because of
what it means for our faculty, our students, our programs and our
aspirations."

Goldenberg stated that though the faculty and staff of LSA have
been good stewards throughout the "pervasive transition period" of
the last few years, "the most important part of our stewardship is
ensuring the continuation of an outstanding faculty. I think we can
feel very optimistic about that."

LSA faculty honored

LSA held its first faculty meeting Sept. 8. In addition to
recognition of new faculty in departments across the College, Dean
Edie N. Goldenberg joined faculty in recognizing the following
recipients of named professorships, new chairs, directors and a new
dean, and recipients of special awards:

Named Professorships:

Roger Gordon, Kempf Chair of Economics

Maris Vinoskis, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Professor of History

Alan Deardorff, John W. Sweetland Professor of International
Economics